{"id":82,"date":"2016-01-17T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T17:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/?p=82"},"modified":"2016-01-17T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T17:44:31","slug":"reading-to-be-popular-blog-post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/reading-to-be-popular-blog-post-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading to be Popular – Blog Post 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the age of 6 my parents (like most parents I assume) urged me to read daily. My mother always says that she learned most of her English from reading each day! While I listened to their advice and read a lot, I do not think I grew to love reading until about middle school. It was not the middle school reading curriculum that caught my interest but instead it was the oh-so-hot series’ that came out at the time. Twilight, novels by Sarah Dessen, and Harry Potter (even though I never read the Potter books) were all anyone could talk about in the cafeteria and I think being apart of book pop culture or frankly any pop culture was important to me. \u00a0I can still picture large novels being glued to my hand each, Rory Gilmore style, so that I would never be left with nothing to do. I have since cracked open a few of those books and I can not help but laugh of what I once thought was literary genius. After studying adolescence more in college I think that my avid reading can be deemed a positive result of the need to ‘fit-in’. \u00a0Even though I do not get to read much for leisure now I often find myself connecting with students in college about books that we raved over<\/em> in middle school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the age of 6 my parents (like most parents I assume) urged me to read daily. My mother always says that she learned most of her English from reading each day! While I listened to their advice and read a lot, I do not think I grew to love reading until about middle school. … Continue reading “Reading to be Popular – Blog Post 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annettevee.com\/2016spring_usesofliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}